Exhibition Closing: Liturgical Textiles from Late Medieval Germany, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Until 4 August 2024

Exhibition Closing

Liturgical Textiles from Late Medieval Germany

The Cleveland Museum of Art, 11 August 2023 - 4 August 2024

Christ Gathering Roses, Centerpiece of an Altar Cloth(?), early to mid-1400s. Germany. 2021.238 (Public Domain)

The Cleveland Museum of Art has a particularly rich selection of liturgical textiles (textiles used during religious ceremonies) from the Middle Ages (about 500–1500). In cathedrals, monasteries, and parish churches, they were used at many different points of church life. They covered the altar table, were used during mass, or served as vestments, or garments, for the clergy. They were usually richly decorated with pictorial programs, allowing insights into the thinking and piety of each time period.

They were often produced within monastic communities. Nuns, in particular, are believed to have made textiles. In the late Middle Ages (about 1200–1500), production increased sharply, and, especially in Italy, textiles were also produced industrially on a large scale and delivered throughout Europe.

Textiles are particularly sensitive to light and accordingly they can only be exhibited for a limited period of time in order to preserve their colors and fabrics for later generations by keeping them in a dark, climate-controlled space.

For more information, visit https://www.clevelandart.org/exhibitions/liturgical-textiles-late-medieval-germany

Exhibition: Conoscenza e Libertà. Arte Islamica al Museo Civico Medievale di Bologna, Museo Civico Medievale, Bologna, 20 April – 15 September 2024

Exhibition

Conoscenza e Libertà. Arte Islamica al Museo Civico Medievale di Bologna

Museo Civico Medievale, Bologna, 20 April – 15 September 2024

Curated by Anna Contadini (SOAS University of London)

The wonderful objects in this exhibition are designed to display the Museum’s outstanding collection of Islamic objects, which includes some undisputed masterpieces. They are the fruit of targeted collecting which includes that of Bolognese collectors and scholars Ferdinando Cospi in the XVII, Luigi Ferdinando Marsili in the XVIII and Pelagio Palagi in the XIX century. Knowledge of them allows us to comprehend the contribution made by the cultures that produced them to European art and thought, and frees us from prejudices and stereotypes. The themes of the exhibition, in fact, reveal the transmission of scientific knowledge, of techniques of manufacturing and decoration and of the appropriation of ornamental repertoires that will become part of a global artistic vocabulary. The objects on display come from a wide swathe of the Islamic world, extending from Iraq to Spain, and cover a broad chronological span, from the beginning of the 13th to the 18th century. They are representative of the artistic production of the Abbasid, Zangid, Ayyubid, Mamluk, and Ottoman dynasties, and include Spanish examples of Islamic inspiration from the 15th and 16th centuries. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue of the same title.

For more information, see http://informa.comune.bologna.it/iperbole/media/files/arte_islamica.pdf or visit https://www.museibologna.it/medievale/schede/conoscenza-e-liberta-arte-islamica-al-museo-civico-medievale-di-bologna-1535/.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: 2 ONE-MONTH RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES AT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, CONNECTING HISTORIES: THE PRINCETON AND MOUNT ATHOS LEGACY, DUE 16 AUGUST 2024

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

2 ONE-MONTH RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES AT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

CONNECTING HISTORIES: THE PRINCETON AND MOUNT ATHOS LEGACY

DUE 16 AUGUST 2024

The ongoing multi-year project, “Connecting Histories: The Princeton and Mount Athos Legacy,” aims to create an international team of faculty, staff, and students that will explore and bring awareness to the rich, complex, and remarkable historical and cultural heritage of Mount Athos, and its connection to Princeton University. 

The collaborative team engages in research, teaching, digitization projects, and descriptive cataloging over three years (2023–2026), exploring holdings throughout the Princeton campus, including Visual Resources and the Index of Medieval Art in the Department of Art & Archaeology, the Mendel Music Library, and the Graphic Arts Collection and Manuscript Division at Princeton University Library. 

The project has been generously sponsored by the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, and from the Art and Archaeology Department at Princeton University, the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, the Mount Athos Foundation of America, and the Princeton Humanities Council.

We are excited to announce two new research opportunities for a one-month in-person stay Princeton. The first focuses on the Graphic Arts collection in the Princeton University Library and/or the Slobodan Nenadović Collection of Drawings and Photographs of Hilandar Monastery in the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University; while the second explores the Kurt Weitzmann Archive in the Visual Resources Collection of the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. Generous funding for these positions has been offered by the Mount Athos Foundation of America and the Princeton University Humanities Council. The deadline is August 16, 2024.

For further details see: https://athoslegacy.project.princeton.edu/announcements/

Università di Salerno, Italy fully funded scholarships - due 22 July 2024

The Università di Salerno, Italy, offers fully funded scholarships for the PhD school in Methods and Methodologies of Archaeological and Art-Historical Research to students holding a foreign relevant degree. The call will open soon after June 15 on the following web page https://web.unisa.it/en/teaching/phd-programmes and will close by late July. 

The evaluation of the applications will be based on the: a) Academic, scientific, and professional curriculum; b) Degree mark; c) Letters of recommendation; d) Research project; e) Other research experiences. 

Interviews will be held – preferably face-to-face, otherwise online – in the first week of September.

For information, please write to Prof. Francesca Dell'Acqua (fdellacqua@unisa.it) for History of Art, and to Prof. Giacomo Pardini (gpardini@unisa.it) for Archaeology.

Exhibition Closing: Mapping the Middle Ages: Marking Time, Space, and Knowledge, University of Notre Dame, Through 31 July 2024

Exhibition closing

Mapping the Middle Ages: Marking Time, Space, and Knowledge

Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame, Indiana

Through 31 July 2024

The tension between literal and figurative arrangements of space, time, and knowledge during the Middle Ages is brought to the fore through the primary objects that remain. Geography, whether real or imagined, manifests on the page to convey a variety of spatial arrangements: topography, pilgrimage, peripatetic liturgical procession, diaspora, and boundary marking. The materiality of medieval manuscript books expresses a similar reality: geographic colophons mark time and space, prayers localize devotion, and the communal memory of a journey commingled with hope and desperation survives in liturgical readings. Even the scattering of manuscript leaves through biblioclasty creates the boundary of what a book once was and what it has become.

To map the Middle Ages is to journey through the space created by the objects and the individuals who used them. If we embrace a manuscript in the totality of itself, we form a new bond and continuity with those who have come before us. The manuscripts in this installation are drawn from the collection of the University of Notre Dame’s Hesburgh Library.

This exhibition is curated by David T. Gura, PhD (Curator of Ancient and Medieval Manuscripts).
This and other exhibits within the library are generously supported by the McBrien Special Collections Endowment.

For more information, visit https://rarebooks.library.nd.edu/exhibits/ and https://sites.nd.edu/rbsc/rbsc-2024-spring-exhibition/

Upcoming Exhibition! Mary & The Women She Inspired, Sam Fogg, London, 27 June 2024 - 26 July 2024

Upcoming ExHibition

Mary & The Women She Inspired

Sam Fogg, 15D Clifford Street, London W1S 4JZ

27 June 2024 - 26 July 2024

MARY & THE WOMEN SHE INSPIRED, an exhibition organised during London Art Week, seeks to shed light on the intertwined stories of the Marys from the Bible. The most common name among women living in Roman Judaea, there are at least six women named Mary that appear in biblical narratives: Mary, the mother of Jesus, Mary Magdalene, Mary of Bethany, Mary of Clopas, Mary Salome, and Mary, the mother of James the Lesser. The Marys - stand as pivotal figures in biblical narratives. Yet, their individual stories are frequently overshadowed by misconceptions and oversimplifications. The little attention paid to their distinctive identities often leads to confused iconographies and speaks to the way that women’s history has been marginalised in the past.

As historical figures whose stories have been intertwined and sometimes conflated, the Marys invite us to explore the rich tapestry of biblical narratives, the complexities of identity and representation, and the enduring power of the images associated with these enigmatic figures. The exhibition comprises twenty-two objects, including a sixth-century Coptic textile of the Virgin and Child, a spectacular high Gothic sculpture of Mary Magdalene covered by her own hair, and a Viennese painting of the Assumption of Mary Magdalene. Through the exhibition, we hope to highlight the unique role that these women played in shaping the way that we understand medieval art and culture.

For more information, visit https://www.samfogg.com/exhibitions/54/

19th Colloquium of the Ernst Herzfeld Society for Studies in Islamic Art and Archaeology, Vitrocentre Romont, Switzerland (4-6 July 2024), Registration By 28 June 2024

International Conference

19th Colloquium of the Ernst Herzfeld Society for Studies in Islamic Art and Archaeology

Vitrocentre Romont, Switzerland, 4–6 July 2024

Organizers: Francine Giese, Sarah Tabbal, Sophie Wolf (Vitrocentre Romont)

Keynote Speaker: Stefano Carboni (University of Western Australia)

Registration By 28 June 2024

This colloquium intends to stimulate the study of glass in the fields of art history and archaeology of the Islamic world by presenting ongoing research dealing with art-historical, architectural, archaeological, as well as material, technical and socio-cultural aspects.

Participation is free of charge, registration is required by 28 June 2024 at claudine.demierre@vitrocentre.ch


Conference Programme

THURSDAY, 4 JULY 2024

Romont, Hôtel de Ville, Rue du Château 112, Grande Salle (2nd floor)

9:00–16:30 Graduate Meeting

18:00–18:15 Markus Ritter (University of Vienna) and Francine Giese (Vitrocentre Romont): Opening Remarks

Keynote Lecture, Chair: Sophie Wolf (Vitrocentre Romont)

18:15–19:00 Stefano Carboni (University of Western Australia); Glass from Islamic Lands: An Overview

19:00–20:30 Apéro riche at Vitromusée Romont


FRIDAY, 5 JULY 2024

Romont, Hôtel de Ville, Rue du Château 112, Grande Salle (2nd floor)

Ernst Herzfeld Award 2023

Chair: Mattia Guidetti (Co-chair of Ernst Herzfeld Award Committee)

9:00–9:30 Edward Shawe-Taylor (Oxford University): The Art of Copying: al-Nuwayri and the Ambrosiana Kitāb al-Ḥayawān


Section I: Early Islamic Glass, Chair: Mattia Guidetti (University of Bologna)

  • 9:30–10:00 Hagit Nol (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt): Glass Production in Ramla, 7th to 11th Century: Contexts, Finds and Agents

  • 10:00–10:30 Matthew Gillman (Independent Scholar, Paris) Problems in Attributing Early Abbasid Glass

  • 10:30–11:00 Carol Meyer (Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology (PCMA) / Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures: West Asia and North Africa (ISAC)): The Aqaba Publication Project: The Glass


Coffee break


Section II: Glass in Courtly Contexts, Chair: Markus Ritter (University of Vienna)

  • 11:30–12:00 Vanessa Rose (EUR Translitterae (ENS-PSL), Paris): Glass Revetments in Samarra: Some Considerations

  • 12:00–12:30 Víctor Rabasco García (Universidad de León): Performativity in the Courtly Architecture: The Crystal majlis of the Toledo’s Alcázar

  • 12:30–13:00 Sahar Hosseini (University of Pittsburgh): Mirrors in Motion: From Venice to Hasht-Behesht Palace in Isfahan


Lunch at Vitromusée Romont


Section III: Cultural Interactions, Chair: Stefano Carboni (University of Western Australia)

  • 14:30–15:00 Sing-Yan Choy (University of Vienna): Islamic World and the Dawn of Glassmaking in Late Medieval China

  • 15:00–15:30 Tori Nuariza Sutanto and Furqon Muhammad Faiz (Sultanate Institute, Surakarta): Early Islamic Glass on the West Coast of Sumatra: A Case Study from the Archaeological Site of Bongal, Indonesia

Coffee break

  • 16:00–16:30 Nada Kallas (Lebanese University, Beirut): L’usage de la verrerie islamique sur le territoire libanais entre le VIIe et le XIVe siècle

  • 16:30–17:00 Farzaneh Farrokhfar (University of Neyshabur): Glass Making Industry of Neyshabur in Ghaznavid and Seljuk Period


19:00 Conference dinner (invitation required)


SATURDAY, 6 JULY 2024

Romont, Hôtel de Ville, Rue du Château 112, Grande Salle (2nd floor)

SECTION III: Glass in al-Andalus, Chair: Francine Giese (Vitrocentre Romont)

  • 9:00–9:30 Nadine Schibille (IRAMAT-CEB, UMR7065 CNRS): The Mosaics from the Great Umayyad Mosques in Damascus and Córdoba

  • 9:30–10:00 Almudena Velo-Gala (Universidade Nova de Lisboa): A Glass Production in the Capital of the Andalusian Caliphate: Vessels and Bottles with Drop Decoration

  • 10:00–10:30 Ana Zamorano (University of Seville): The Glass of Madinat al-Zahra. Production and Exchange in Umayyad Cordoba

  • 10:30–11:00 Fernando Valdés Fernández (ALAMUT): Nouvelles sur le catalogue des cristaux de roche islamiques conservés en Espagne


Coffee break


SECTION V: Coloured Light, Chair: Laura Hindelang (University of Bern)

  • 11:30–12:00 Francine Giese, Sarah Keller, Sophie Wolf (Vitrocentre Romont), Nadine Schibille (IRAMAT-CEB, UMR7065 CNRS): Art Historical Classification and Material Characterization of Islamic Stucco Glass Windows

  • 12:00–12:30 Mustafa Tupev (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo): Nach dem Vorbild Roms an den Ufern des Nils

  • 12:30–13:00 Valentina Laviola (University of Naples L’Orientale): Looking Through Hodeida (Yemen): Stucco and Glass Windows from a Late-Ottoman Harbour City


Lunch at Vitromusée Romont


PARALLEL SECTIONS

Section VI: Glass in the Late Ottoman Period, Chair: Axel Langer (Museum Rietberg)

Romont, Hôtel de Ville, Rue du Château 112, Grande Salle (2nd floor)

  • 14:30–15:00 Cassandra Furstos, Nadine Schibille, Maria Paola Pellegrino, Anne Leschallier de Lisle, Yasmin Kanhoush, Julien Charbonnier (Archaïos, Paris): Glass Exchange Networks under the Microscope: The Composite Glass Assemblages from al-ʿUlā Valley (Hejaz, Saudi Arabia)

  • 15:00–15:30 Andrea Umberto Gritti (Campus Condorcet / EHESS): Ottoman Initiatives to Produce Filigreed Glass in the 19th Century

  • 15:30–16:00 Sarah Tabbal (Vitrocentre Romont): Far from Imagination? Drawings and Photographs of 19th Century Stucco Glass Windows

  • 16:00–16:30 Miriam Kühn (Museum für Islamische Kunst in Berlin): Exploring Acquisition Practices and Provenances in the Formative Period of the Museum für Islamische Kunst in Berlin: A Case Study on Sarre’s Acquisitions of Glass in Cairo between 1904 and 1914


Section VII: Ongoing research, Chair: Hagit Nol (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)

Romont, Hôtel de Ville, Rue du Château 112, Salle bourgeoisiale (1st floor), 

  • 14:30–15:00 Bekhruz Golibovich Kurbanov (Samarqand Institute of Archaeology): Between Byzantium and Khurasan: A Case Study of a Medieval Ewer from Bukhara

  • 15:00–15:30 Giuseppe Labisi (University of Konstanz): The Bozpar Valley Research Project: New Data and Considerations on the Late Sasanian / Early Islamic Architecture of Iran

  • 15:30–16:00 Ana Marija Grbanovic (University of Bamberg): Colourful Mosques and Tekiyyas in Ottoman Balkans: a Uniquely Balkan Phenomenon?


Coffee break

17:00–19:00 General Assembly of Ernst Herzfeld Society


SUNDAY, 7 JULY 2024, Vitromusée Romont

10:00–11:00 Guided tour through the exhibition ‘Luminosité de l’Orient’

11:00–13:00 Visit of the exhibition ‘Regards du Sénégal. Souwèr de la collection Afric.Art’ and presentation of the technique of reverse glass painting by the Senegalese artist Azou Bade

Call For Papers: Ever Ancient, Ever New: The Tensions of Tradition and Mission, 49th International PMR Conference, Villanova University (1-3 Nov. 2024), Due 31 July 2024

Call for Papers

49th International Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies Conference (PMR) Conference

Ever Ancient, Ever New: The Tensions of Tradition and Mission

The Inn at Villanova University, November 1-3, 2024

Due 31 July 2024

As always, the PMR makes an OPEN CALL to scholars, institutions, and societies to propose Papers, Panels, or Sponsored Sessions in all areas and topics in late antiquity/patristics, Byzantine Studies, Medieval Studies, Islamic Studies, Jewish Studies, and Renaissance & Reformation Studies. 

The PMR committee this year makes a special invitation to scholars from all disciplines in these fields to address our plenary theme:

Ever Ancient, Ever New: The Tensions of Tradition and Mission

Featuring: Han-Luen Kantzer Komline the Marvin and Jerene DeWitte Professor of Theology and Church History at Western Theological Seminary, author of Augustine on the Will (OUP 2020)

And Neslihan Șenocak an Associate Professor of History at Columbia University, author of The Poor and the Perfect (Cornell, 2019)

The year 2024 marks the 750th anniversary of the passing of Thomas Aquinas and Bonaventure of Bagnoreggio. Both were part of the mendicant movement that sought to live the vita apostolica in the cities and towns of a flourishing European culture suspended between an aristocratic past and a mercantile future. Both were educated at the University of Paris, and both taught there, mastering the tools of scholastic inquiry to try to bring classical and patristic texts into the dialectical engagement of an authoritative tradition.  The PMR commemorates their death this year, not by focusing on their individual contributions alone, but on the animating tensions between tradition and mission that lay at the heart of the mendicant orders and of the university.  What is the relationship between tradition and mission? Between the old and the new? Between the institutions of learning and the pastoral and practical need that summons scholars from the studia into the streets? These questions are not only for Paris in the 13th century. They are questions that animate Christian and, mutatis mutandis, Jewish and Islamic discourse throughout the Mediterranean world. This year’s plenary theme will explore these questions across the horizon of the Common Era from its early days to early modernity.

As is our custom, the call for papers will be open beyond our plenary theme, and scholars are encouraged to propose papers and panels on all aspects of the premodern Mediterranean and European cultures of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

Deadline for submission July 31, 2024
Notification by August 15, 2024

To submit an abstract or for more information, please visit https://www1.villanova.edu/university/liberal-arts-sciences/programs/theology/events/pmr.html

Call: 610.519.4728 | Email: pmr.conference@villanova.edu

New Exhibition! Healing the Body, Healing the Soul: Methods of Therapy in Medieval Europe, The Walters Art Museum, 20 June 2024 - 15 December 2024

New Exhibition

Healing the Body, Healing the Soul: Methods of Therapy in Medieval Europe

The Walters Art Museum

Centre Street Building, Level 3, Medieval Gallery

20 June 2024 - 15 December 2024

Almugavar Hours W.420, The Walters Art Museum, fol. 278v (SS. Cosmas and Damian and decorative border with floral and faunal motifs and fantastical beasts)

Health, wellness, and healing are universal issues that have preoccupied people since the beginning of human memory. Medieval Europeans held the belief that the body and soul were connected and impossible to separate. Maintaining bodily and spiritual health was considered a constant but necessary challenge, and people of this time period dedicated significant effort and time to finding remedies for bodily and spiritual ailments. Many of these practices are reflected in the art and books of the time.

On view June 20, Healing the Body, Healing the Soul: Methods of Therapy in Medieval Europe explores the intimate link between body and soul as envisioned during the medieval period and demonstrates how works of art contributed to medieval European understandings of wellness and even aided in therapeutic practices.

Divided into three sections which address physical healing, spiritual healing, and the interlinked nature of physical and spiritual health, works in the exhibition examine medical theories, medicine in practice, saints and health, pilgrimage, and spiritual exercise. Featuring 23 works, visitors will see rare books and manuscripts from the Walters library along with medieval objects. To provide a contemporary perspective, the exhibition also includes a photograph by blind artist Pete Eckert from his Bone Light series. According to the artist, who creates light photography of his skeleton, the loss of his sight produced a phantom sense of light coming from his bones which he captures in illuminated portraits. The work speaks to the current lived experiences of people with disabilities and creates a link to understand how disability was understood during the medieval period in the context of body and spirit.

Curators: Orsolya Mednyánszky, Former Zanvyl Krieger Doctoral Fellow; Lynley Anne Herbert, Robert and Nancy Hall Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts; Lauren Maceross, Zanvyl Krieger Doctoral Fellow

This installation is generously funded by Supporters of the Walters Art Museum. To make a contribution toward this exhibition, please consider making a gift today.

For more information, visit https://thewalters.org/exhibitions/healing-the-body/

Call for Applications: Romanesque Research Award 2024, European Romanesque Center (Europäisches Romanik Zentrum, ERZ), Due By 17 July 2024

Call for Applications

European Romanesque Center (Europäisches Romanik Zentrum, ERZ)

Romanesque Research Award 2024

Due By 17 July 2024

The European Romanesque Center (Europäisches Romanik Zentrum, ERZ) awards outstanding international research of emerging young scholars on the field of the Romanesque period. The award is donated by the Stiftung Saalesparkasse (Halle).

The award aims to promote, to honour and encourage graduated junior researchers contributing to the study of art and architectural history, archaeology, history, history of theology and liturgy, history of the literature or the law of the early and high Middle Ages.

Only unpublished dissertations will be considered (PhD thesis). The award is supposed to promote graduates. It is valued at 2,000 EUR. The members of the ERZ’s international advisory board and the executive board will co-judge to the selection of the awardee. Accepting the award, the winner is encouraged to give a public lecture at the ERZ.

Please send your application (CV, certificates, references, list of publications), a digital copy of the PhD thesis (PDF), including an abstract and the academic evaluations, until 17 July 2024 to:

Prof. Dr. Ute Engel
Europäisches Romanik Zentrum
c/o Institut für Kunstgeschichte und Archäologien Europas
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Emil-Abderhalden-Str. 26-27
E-Mail: sekretariat@romanik-zentrum.eu

For a PDF of Call for Papers in German, English, and French, https://blogs.urz.uni-halle.de/romanikzentrum/files/2024/06/Ausschreibung_Romanikforschungspreis_erz_2024.pdf

Call for Applications: The Lone Medievalist Prizes in Teaching, Scholarly Outreach, and Scholarship Due By 15 August 2024 & Member of the Judging Committee by 15 July 2024

Call for Applications

The Lone Medievalist Prizes in Teaching, Scholarly Outreach, and Scholarship

Applications for Judging COmmitTee Due by 15 July 2024

Applications for Prizes Due By 15 August 2024

The Lone Medievalist solicits submissions for three prizes in the categories of Teaching, Scholarly Outreach, and Scholarship. Each prize will be separately judged by a panel, and each winning submission will receive an award of $100. Submissions will be accepted until August 15th, 2024, with prizes to be announced by September 15 (in time for your CV updates before job markets, reappointments, tenure portfolios, etc.). One submission per prize per person or group, please.

All submissions must be submitted via Google Form here.

AND…Call for Prize Judging Committee: Are you interested in helping give awards to your fellow Lone Medievalists? Are you looking for service work to a national organization (for portfolios, promotion, tenure, etc?) Then we’re looking for you! Apply here by July 15, 2024.

The Lone Medievalist Prize for Teaching

This award is given for excellence in the creation of materials for teaching any aspect of medieval studies at any professional level. Our goal is to showcase the work of medievalists whose teaching inspires students and colleagues. The winning submission may include a documented project, a unit plan with appropriate materials, a syllabus and assignment portfolio, or any other evidence of exemplary or innovative teaching.

For the Lone Medievalist Prize in Teaching, please submit the following:

  • Short (1000 words or fewer) letter of application introducing your work

  • CV (not more than 2 pages)

  • 2-3 artifacts demonstrating the nature and quality of your teaching

The Lone Medievalist Prize for Scholarly Outreach

This award recognizes a work of scholarly outreach in medieval studies. The intent of this prize is to honor the often undervalued work of representing medieval studies to the public. Scholarly outreach may take the form of a public lecture, a continuing education program for K-12 teachers, a podcast, a library curation or event, an editorial for an online or print publication, etc. Submission should take the form of clear documentation of the work; the specific form of that work is left to the individual.

For the Lone Medievalist Prize in Scholarly Outreach, please submit the following:

  • Short (1000 words or fewer) letter of application explaining the nature of your work

  • CV (not more than 2 pages)

  • 1-3 artifacts demonstrating the nature and qualityof your outreach project

The Lone Medievalist Prize for Scholarship

This award is given for a notable contribution to the field through scholarly research and reporting. Our aim is to champion the efforts of medievalists who are researching, writing, and presenting work in medieval studies. Submissions may be unpublished (e.g., a conference paper or equivalent) or published, and should be of at least 1500 words. The work may have one author or multiple authors (one letter of application is sufficient, but each author should include a brief CV).

For the Lone Medievalist Prize in Scholarship, please submit the following:

  • Brief (500 words or fewer) letter of application introducing your work

  • CV (not more than 2 pages)

  • Submission of your work (in print or electronic form)

For more information, visit https://lonemedievalist.hcommons.org/

Call for Papers: The Spectrum of the Early Medieval World: Exploring the Semiotics of Colour, The Australian Early Medieval Association, Camberra & Online (26-28 Sept. 2024), Due By 29 July 2024

Call for Papers

The Nineteenth International Conference of the Australian Early Medieval Association

The Spectrum of the Early Medieval World: Exploring the Semiotics of Colour

26 – 28 September 2024

Australian Catholic University, Canberra Campus and Online

Abstracts Due by 29 July 2024

Throughout the medieval era, colour served not only as a visual and aesthetic element but also as a powerful semiotic tool, delineating concepts of light and darkness, virtue and vice, conformity and deviation. The application of colour—whether vivid, subdued, variegated, or absent—was a deliberate choice by medieval authors, artists, scribes, and patrons, imbued with significant cultural, philosophical, and spiritual meanings. Colour held significant aesthetic and symbolic roles across various cultures. Colour also delineated social status through clothing and heraldry, providing essential visual cues in both daily life and on the battlefield. This period’s rich engagement with colour demonstrates its powerful role in communication and cultural expression, shaping individual experiences and societal values.

Potential themes may include:

  • Chromatic Cosmologies: Exploring astrological and cosmological colour symbolism.

  • Hues of Havoc: Examining the representation of climate and natural disasters through colour symbolism.

  • Palette of Plagues: The use of colour in depicting disease and medicine.

  • Wilderness Tinted: The depiction of wilderness and domestication through colour, exploring how these elements are represented across various media.

  • Spectral Technologies: Investigating the interplay of colour with medieval technologies and superstitions.

  • Sacred and Secular Shades: Analysing the use of colour in religious contexts, contrasting pagan and Christian iconographies.

  • Cycles of Life: How biological cycles and human cultural expressions are conveyed through colour.

  • Visions Beyond the Veil: The colour motifs associated with the natural and the supernatural realms in medieval thought.

  • Eternal Colours: The symbolism of colour in the concepts of life and the afterlife.

  • Contrasts of Creation: The use of colour to express dualities such as daylight and darkness, and what these represented in the medieval mindset.

  • Monstrous Pigments: Investigating how colours contribute to the portrayal of monsters and totems in medieval iconography.

  • Imaginative Spectrum: The role of colour in articulating the bounds of art and the imagination within a medieval context

In keeping with the inclusive spirit of AEMA’s annual international conferences, submissions may be thematically colourful—or not. There are no geographical limitations, only a requirement that submissions relate to the early medieval period (c. 400–1200 CE)—or its reception in later contexts.

Please email submissions for a standard 20-minute paper (+Q&A time) to conference@aema.org.au by 29 July 2024.

Each proposal should include: the presenter/s, their academic affiliation/s (if applicable), paper title, an abstract of 150-250 words, a short presenter/s biography of 50 words, mode of presentation (in-person or online), including the timezone if online. We also strongly encourage all prospective presenters to consider submitting a full version of their paper to our journal, JAEMA, for a planned special themed issue in 2025.

AEMA members who are either Graduates or Early-Career Researchers are eligible to apply for a limited number of travel bursaries, and will go into the running for our Best Paper Prize awarded to both an in-person and an online presentation. We look forward to submissions that offer vibrant insights into the chromatic dimensions of the early medieval world!

2024 Conference Convenors:

For more information, visit https://aema.org.au/conferencecfp/

Online Lecture: Art Break: An Armchair Traveler's Guide to the Medieval World, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Friday, July 12, 2024, 12 pm PDT

Online Lecture

Art Break: An Armchair Traveler's Guide to the Medieval World

The J. Paul Getty Museum

Friday, July 12, 2024, at 12 pm PDT

Free | Advance sign-up required

India (detail) from Livre des merveilles du monde (Book of the Marvels of the World), about 1460–1465, Master of the Geneva Boccaccio. Colored washes, gold, and ink. Getty Museum

Giant snails, dog-headed men, and ferocious dragons are just some of the marvels that appear in medieval accounts of locales far from Europe. In the Middle Ages, when long-distance travel was uncommon, many relied on stories found in manuscripts for both information and entertainment. Focusing on the written and illustrated legends of travelers ranging from Alexander the Great to Marco Polo, curator Elizabeth Morrison and scholar Mark Cruse discuss accounts of distant places that were often based on a mixture of facts, ancient folklore, and fantastic tales. Morrison and Cruse examine how looking at the world through its marvels can be revelatory for understanding society both in the Middle Ages and today.

Complements the exhibition The Book of Marvels: Wonder and Fear in the Middle Ages on view from June 11–August 25, 2024.

SPEAKERS
Elizabeth Morrison is senior curator of manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum. She is the co-curator of The Book of Marvels: Wonder and Fear in the Middle Ages.

Mark Cruse is associate professor of French at Arizona State University. His research focuses on the relationship between writing, performance, travel, and material culture in the Eurasian Middle Ages.

For more information, https://www.getty.edu/visit/cal/events/ev_3935.html

Call for Papers: Inclusion and Exclusion in Medieval Central Europe, The Sixth Biennial Conference of the MECERN, Munich (19-21 Feb. 2025), Due by 15 July 2024

Call for Papers

The Sixth Biennial Conference of the Medieval Central Europe Research Network

Inclusion and Exclusion in Medieval Central Europe

Department of Medieval History, LMU Munich (Germany) 

19-21 February 2025

Due by 15 July 2024

The Medieval Central Europe Research Network (MECERN) invites you to Munich (Germany) for its Sixth Biennial Conference in 2025. The conference is dedicated to the complex social hierarchies and differences that permeated medieval societies and created various areas of tension. These could be rooted in different perceptions of ethnic, social, religious, and economic backgrounds. Also, in recent years, medieval studies as increasingly focused on the significance of gender diversity for medieval societies. Based on these developments, the conference investigates categories of difference, such as race, class and gender and their function for social inclusion and exclusion in the medieval world. We welcome contributions that deal with mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion and their impact on medieval community and identity building. In particular, we would like to encourage contributions with a special focus on gender-related topics.

Topics to be addressed may include, but are not limited to:

• Mechanisms of inclusion/exclusion: causes, functions, and impact

• Which categories of difference were referred to and used in medieval societies in different periods?

• Which contemporary stereotypes and (gender-based) arguments can be identified (e.g., ‘Hate Speech,’ Misogyny, Religious Polemic)?

• What symbols, or visual representations were used to mark, emphasize, and express social differences?

• Current debates in Medieval Studies: gender approaches and their relevance for interdisciplinary Medieval Studies, e.g., Gender Studies, Intersectionality, Queer Studies

We welcome proposals from scholars researching history, from political, social, cultural, economic, ecclesiastical, and urban, to art, literary, intellectual, legal history, historiography, auxiliary sciences, archaeology, and historical anthropology. Both individual and panel submissions are welcome. Panels will be 90 minutes; we recommend papers to be 15 to 20 minutes twenty minutes max. Please submit your proposals by Monday, 15 July, 2024 via https://www.mag.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de/forschung/netzwerke/netzwerk_mecern/index.html

Notifications of acceptance will be given by 15 September, 2024. Conference fees are waved for all participants due to funding by the Department for Medieval History (LMU Munich). Early career scholars can apply for conference travel stipends covering their accommodation during the conference. Applications for bursaries can be indicated in the submission form.

For questions regarding eligibility, please contact mecern@mg.fak09.uni-muenchen.de.

For more information, visit https://www.mag.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de/forschung/netzwerke/netzwerk_mecern/index.html

Call For Papers: Gender, Identity, and Authority in Late Antiquity, University of Tulsa (20-23 March 2024), Due By 1 October 2024

Call For Papers

Gender, Identity, and Authority in Late Antiquity

University of Tulsa, March 20-23, 2025

Due by 1 October 2024

The Society for Late Antiquity is pleased to announce the sixteenth biennial meeting of Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity, which will be held at The University of Tulsa, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. We encourage papers that investigate issues and aspects of gender, identity, and/or authority within the broader late antique world, either in relation to one another or on their own. This thematic scope is intentionally broad, allowing for many different approaches and from a host of disciplines and methodologies. Gender, for example, might include the impact of religion or other factors on ideas of the family, sex, and sexuality, understandings of the nature of gender differences, or conceptions of identity and authority in relationship to the gendered or genderless self or other. Likewise, identity might focus on its self-perception or ascription by others, its potential to be malleable, situational, or contested, or its various components, like ethnicity, political allegiance, religious affiliation, or class. Finally, authority might interrogate its attribution to or expectation for a particular person (e.g., an empress or saint), place (e.g., Rome), or thing (e.g., a text or creed), the mechanisms for its attainment or rejection, such as tradition, merit, or force, or its realization of lack thereof, either as an actual fact or ideal.

Abstracts (no more than 500 words) for papers presenting original scholarship should be submitted for consideration no later than October 1, 2024.

Conference email: shiftingfrontiersxvi@gmail.com

For more information, https://sites.utulsa.edu/shiftingfrontiersxvi/

Call for Applications: Curatorial Research Stays, Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome, Due By 30 June 2023

Call for Applications

Curatorial Research Stays

Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome

Due By 30 June 2023

The Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome offers Curatorial Research Stays with a duration of three months to museum curators for projects on Italian art history from Late Antiquity to the present day in the context of their respective museum activities (e.g. curatorial research for the preparation of an exhibition or the editing of an inventory catalogue). A correlation to the current research priorities of the Bibliotheca Hertziana is welcome.

Curatorial Research Fellows receive a monthly expense allowance of approximately 1.750 € and are granted full access to all research resources of the Bibliotheca Hertziana. They are expected to reside in Rome for the duration of the fellowship and to actively take part in the institute's scientific life.

Museum-employed researchers who do not reside in Rome or the surrounding area are eligible to apply. Applications must include a summary of the candidate’s research project (max. 3 pages), CV and list of publications, and a cover letter with indication of the desired grant period. 

Applications for the 2025 grants may be submitted through our recruitment platform by June 30, 2024. 

For more information: https://www.biblhertz.it/de/opportunities/curatorial-stays

Call for Applications for 2 Scholarships: 2-Month Residential Scholarship at Vittore Branca Center & Benno Geiger Scholarship for literary studies, Due 30 June 2024

Call for Applications for 2 Scholarships

2-Month Residential Scholarship at Vittore Branca Center

Benno Geiger Scholarship for literary studies

Vittore Branca International Center for the study of Italian culture

Application Deadline for Both: 30 June 2024

New 2-month residential scholarship announcement – Vittore Branca Center

The Fondazione Giorgio Cini offers 9 residential scholarships to PhD students, PhDs and postdoc scholars (who must not be over 40 years old on June 30, 2024) interested in spending two months in Venice between January and December 2025.

Applicants shall propose a research project in one of the following fields: art history, history of Venice, literature, musicology, ethonmusicology, theatre, early printed books, comparative cultures and spiritualities and digital humanities.

– Download scholarship announcement here –

Application deadline: 30 June 2024

Info: centrobranca@cini.it / +39 041 2710253

Benno Geiger Scholarship announcement, for literary studies

The Fondazione Giorgio Cini offers one 3-month residential scholarship, to enable studies focused on the Benno Geiger Archive, which is preserved on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, as well as on other literary archives held at the Fondazione.

The 3-month research residency shall take place between October 2024 and October 2025.

 – Download scholarship announcement here – 

Application deadline: 30 June 2024

Info: premiogeiger@cini.it

Call for Applications: PREIS DER ZEITSCHRIFT FUER WELTGESCHICHTE, bis zum 30. Juni 2024

Call for Applications

PREIS DER ZEITSCHRIFT FUER WELTGESCHICHTE

bis zum 30. Juni 2024

Die Zeitschrift fuer Weltgeschichte (ZWG) sieht es als eine ihrer Aufgaben an, Forschungen zur Welt- und Globalgeschichte in deutscher Sprache zu foerdern, um eine staerkere universitaere Verankerung dieses Fachgebietes anzuregen. Daher schreiben die Herausgeber und Herausgeberinnen der ZWG den mit 2.000 Euro dotierten Preis der Zeitschrift fuer Weltgeschichte zum fuenften Mal aus. Er wird fuer die beste deutschsprachige, publizierte oder publikationsfaehige Erstlingsmonographie zur Welt- und/oder Globalgeschichte der letzten drei Jahre vergeben, in der Regel also eine Dissertation. Der Preis wird nur vergeben, wenn das Gremium aus Herausgebern einen Beschluss mit absoluter Mehrheit fasst.

Autorinnen und Autoren koennen eigene Arbeiten fuer diesen Preis vorschlagen oder ihre Arbeiten koennen von anderen vorgeschlagen werden. Vorgeschlagene Arbeiten bitte zusammen mit einem CV
bis zum 30. Juni 2024
an den geschaeftsfuehrenden Herausgeber der ZWG,
Prof. Dr. Juergen G. Nagel (Historisches Institut der Fernuniversitaet Hagen, Universitaetsstr. 33/ KSW, D 58097 Hagen) senden. Der Rechtsweg ist ausgeschlossen.

Die ZWG erscheint im Peter Lang Verlag und bietet ein deutschsprachiges Forum fuer internationale Forschungen und Debatte ueber Global-, Welt- und Universalgeschichte. Die ZWG sucht die Kooperation mit Regionalstudien, laedt Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter aus anderen Disziplinen ein und wendet sich an eine breite Oeffentlichkeit.

Webseite: http://www.vgws.org/index.php?article_id=5

Call for Papers: Tagung für Nachwuchswissenschaftler:innen im Bereich der Möbel- und Raumkunst, in Hildesheim, Due 01.07.2024

Call for Papers

Colloquium

Tagung für Nachwuchswissenschaftler:innen im Bereich der Möbel- und Raumkunst

Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaft und Kunst, HildesheiM

26-27.09.2024

Due 01.07.2024

Gesellschaft der Freunde von Möbel- und Raumkunst e. V. ist die Interessengemeinschaft für alle, die sich wissenschaftlich, privat oder beruflich mit Möbeln und Raumkunst befassen. Der Verein fördert auf vielfältige Weise die Bewahrung, Erforschung und Vermittlung von Möbeln und Raumkunst. Neben Seminaren und Exkursionen unterstützt mobile die wissenschaftliche Forschung, u. a. mit einer eigenen Schriftenreihe. mobile fördert Tagungen, Restaurierungsmaßnahmen und Forschungsprojekte. Ein besonderes Anliegen des Vereins ist es, den wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs zu fördern. Um den Dialog zwischen Museumsfachleuten, Restauratorinnen und Restauratoren, Sammlerinnen und Sammlern und dem wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs zu stärken, organisieren mobile, die HAWK Hildesheim, Fakultät bauen und erhalten / Studiengang Restaurierung und das Deutsche Forum für Kunstgeschichte Paris eine Tagung in der Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaft und Kunst in Hildesheim (HAWK).

Die Tagung versteht sich als ein Angebot an Nachwuchs­wissenschaftler­innen und Nachwuchs­wissenschaftler, eigene Forschungs­projekte im Kreis von Fach­kolleginnen und Fach­kollegen zu präsentieren und zu diskutieren. Ziel der Tagung ist es, einen intensiven Austausch und eine Vernetzung innerhalb der deutsch­sprachigen Möbel- und Raumkunst­forschung über die Grenzen der einzelnen Universitäten und Fachhochschulen hinaus zu gestalten.

Das Kolloquium richtet sich an Doktoranden (m, w, d), Postdoktoranden (m, w, d), Habilitanden (m, w, d) und allgemein an jüngere Forscher (m, w, d) von Hochschulen und musealen Einrichtungen des deutsch­sprachigen Raums, die sich mit Themen der Möbel- und Raumkunst befassen, wobei keine Beschränkungen bezüglich Epochen, Gattungen, Themengebieten etc. bestehen. Die Teilnehmenden werden gebeten, das eigene Forschungs­projekt im Rahmen eines etwa 20-minütigen Vortrags zu präsentieren. Je nach Stand der eigenen Recherchen sind hierbei sowohl Arbeits­berichte als auch die Vorstellung von Thesen oder Zusammenfassungen des Forschungsbeitrags willkommen.

Unterbringungskosten für zwei Nächte sowie Verpflegung und eine Erstattung der Reisekosten bis zu 150 Euro werden übernommen.

Die Bewerbungsunterlagen müssen einen tabellarischen Lebenslauf (ggf. mit Publikationsverzeichnis), eine knappe Zusammenfassung des Forschungsprojekts sowie ein Motivationsschreiben enthalten. Ein Anspruch auf Zulassung besteht nicht.

Die Bewerbungen sind bis zum 01. Juli 2024 zu richten an:
Dr. Andreas Büttner
Kurator Kunstgewerbe, Gemälde und Skulpturen
Städtisches Museum Braunschweig
Steintorwall 14
38100 Braunschweig
andreas.buettner@braunschweig.de


Webseite: https://www.dfk-paris.org/de/event/tagung-f%C3%BCr-nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen-im-bereich-der-moebel-und-raumkunst-3908.html

36th CIHA World Congress: Matter Materiality, Centre de Congrès de Lyon, France, 23-28 June 2024

International Conference

36th CIHA World Congress

Matter Materiality 

Sunday 23 June – Friday 28 June 2024
Centre de Congrès de Lyon (France)

The 36th Congress of the Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art is organized under the auspices of the French Committee of Art History (CFHA) by a partnership between the by the French Committee of Art History (CFHA), the Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA) and the Laboratoire de recherche historique Rhône-Alpes (LARHRA).

The 36th CIHA Congress aims to build a bridge between the humanities and experimental sciences on current issues, share approaches from different fields, promote encounters between researchers and professionals from all over the world and encourage those who will create the Art History and Heritage of tomorrow.

Matter and materiality are inherent to the conception, production, interpretation and conservation of artifacts in all cultures across all period. It focuses on issues relating to the world's cultural heritage in the diversity of its creation, study, conservation and promotion.

The theme Matter Materiality focuses on the object and its uses over the centuries and across cultural areas.

This theme taps into the fundamental origins of art while inviting reflection on the major issues of our time: management of resources, sustainability, the environment, new technologies, digital dematerialisation, and more.

Matter and materiality are inherent to the conception, production, interpretation and conservation of artifacts in all cultures across all period. It focuses on issues relating to the world's cultural heritage in the diversity of its creation, study, conservation and promotion.

For more information, the full program, and registration, visit http://www.ciha.org/content/lyon-2024-matter-materiality